This is free thought radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.

Imagine there's no heaven

It's easy if you try No hell below us above us only sky.

Imagine all the people living for today. Eden's greetings are you, Godless and Fidel's.

This is Freethought Radio, and I'm Annie Luriegel.

And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves.

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Free Thought Radio is produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

And get that right, it's not freedom of.

Of course, we're in favor of that, but it's the freedom from Religion Foundation,

a national organization, more than three decades of working to keep state and church separate,

and, as this show does, to educate the public about the views of non-believers, atheists,

atheists, agnostic, secular humanists, all of the nuns, N-O-N-E-S,

the fastest growing segment of the American, quote-unquote, religious landscape. Well, Dan, I think you have a joke for us. Well, it's not my... You read one. Well, I read a joke. I'm reading... I just finished reading Richard Dawkins' book, his new book, The Greatest Show on Earth when he talks... He explains evolution and gives the evidence for it. And he didn't write this joke either, but he told it, and I thought it was funny.

He was talking about predators and prey in the arms race and evolution and all of that. And he tells us about these two guys that were hiking one day. And one guy said, you know what? I heard there's this wild grizzly bear loose somewhere. We've got to be careful

where we go. And so the other hiker sat down and started changing his shoes. He said, I'm going to

get out of these hiking boots and put on my running shoes. And the other hiker said, are you crazy?

Even with running shoes, you can't outrun a grizzly bear. And he said, I know that, but I can outrun you.

And speaking of Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, our guest on the second half of Free Thought Radio will be an opera singer, and that's a first for Free Thought Radio.

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